Historic Home Lover
3 Comments Published by popelynne April 12th, 2008 in Architectural Style. by popelynneI admit it. I absolutely love Historic homes. Owensboro, Kentucky had one street of beautiful big historic homes. As a child I was amazed by them much as kids today are passionate about Movie stars and Rock stars. Historic Home Stars!
Travels to St. Louis Mo, or Nashville , Tenn were a special treat in my youth. Places that made me drool with unique homes.
My summers in Texas added to my lust for Historic homes. When other kids were playing sports I was begging my family to stop the car and let me look at this or that home. I would sketch the main components out on lined writing paper. My cousin Rosemary would drive me with her to towns where we could see where relatives grew up around Palmer,Texas, Ennis. We would stop for a Dr Pepper or a snow cone. Wow, those were my drug of transformation. The ice cold joy on top of touring into older homes. Homes can actually make me cry with happiness or a sting of sorrow to one torn down. Windows, doors all carry a music of a bygone era, a sweet syncopation sound that mean love and heaven on earth in historic homes.
And, I bet that beautiful street was Griffith Avenue!! I lived just off of it on Parrish Court from 1950 until 1958 and then moved to Philpot. Griffith Avenue was and still is spectacular. I recall most of all the Berlew house. Truly amazing.
It was Griffith Ave! I am amazed that you even found me…how did you do it?
I recall some fun stories about Owensboro..1950-1958 you were there and I was there 1950-1963 I went to Owensboro HS, and my mom taught out in the country school and dad taught at Kentucky Wesleyan College
where are you now Ed, and are you a realtor?
Thanks Lynne Pope…310-863-7582
Lynne –
My wife is Sandy DeAngelis, with Seven Gables, and she found the Ownesboro reference on your site while doing some blog training. I am also a Realtor, but more or less in name only as I got the license to assist her after we got married four years ago.
I graduated from Daviess County High School in 1962 as we moved from Parrish Court to Philpot in 1958. Oddly, I was just looking at those streets about an hour ago on Google Earth, one of my favorite Web sites.
So, we may have known one another in those days. What year was your HS graduation? I am now a professor over at Cal State Fullerton, having moved to Orange County in 1975.
One of my Halloween stories involves Griffith Avenue. I tell kids that you have to do a cost-benefit analysis of a neighborhood on Halloween Night. Griffith Avenue had the “rich” folks, but it took you too long to walk up the way to the houses. Your net “loot” was much better in closer, less expensive houses, an early lesson in economics, eh?
Let’s touch base again.
Ed Trotter